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Documentation from a trial conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court), Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) and Landesgericht Linz (the Linz District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin: Documentation of the trial, Volume 23

Documentation from a trial conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court), Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) and Landesgericht Linz (the Linz District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin: Documentation of the trial, Volume 23 - Testimony of Otto Fischer, a member of the Ersatzabteilung der SS Kavallerie Division (SS Cavalry Replacement Detachment) in Warsaw, 1942 (p. 15); - Testimony of Fritz Hatje, a member of the Funkabwehr (radio security service) in Warsaw, 1942 (pp. 16-17); - Testimony of Alexander Dytman, a Warsaw Ghetto inmate, who worked in the Luftwaffe barracks outside the Ghetto until 01 May 1943, and then was deported to Majdanek and other camps, liberated by American soldiers in Neuruppin, 02 May 1945 (pp. 18-21) (additional testimony in file no. 7188741, pp. 62-63); - Testimony of Stefan Szczupak, a Warsaw Ghetto inmate until May 1943, then deported to Majdanek and other camps; liberated in Schwerin (pp. 22-24) (additional testimony in file no. 7188741, pp. 56-61); - Statement of facts in the trial against Hermann Höfle, 27 November 1961: Hermann Höfle, a former SS Sturmbannführer, charged with organizing the deportation of the Lublin Jews to the death camps as Stabsführer (Staff Leader) of Odilo Globocnik, head of police, Lublin; also charged with overseeing all deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp (pp. 25-33); - Testimony of Willi Mentz, SS Unterscharführer in Treblinka (pp. 37-39); - Testimony of Werner Wehrheim, commander of the cavalry squadron in Lublin, 1942-July 1944 ( pp. 50-56); - Testimony of Heinrich Birmes, SS Oberscharführer in Warsaw, 1942, in Lublin, summer 1942-February 1943, then again in Warsaw (pp. 59-60); - Testimony of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, a Warsaw Ghetto inmate, chief translator of the Judenrat, who escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto in February 1943 (pp. 74-78); - Testimony of Sol Sieber, a Warsaw Ghetto inmate until 1943 (pp. 102-109, 131-136) (questions) (pp. 137-148) (testimony in English); - Testimony of Abram Figowy, a Warsaw Ghetto inmate until winter 1943, then deported (pp. 172-173); - Testimony of Marianne Trautmann, employed in the office of the SD commander in Warsaw,1941-1944 (pp. 183-184); - List of four witnesses in the trial against Ludwig Hahn: Chaim Fuksman, Lewi Zlocisty, Miriam Mendrzicky and David Ackermann (pp. 192-193); - Testimony of Jacob German, a Warsaw Ghetto inmate until 1943, deported to Majdanek, April 1943, liberated in Schwerin, 02 May 1945 (pp. 195-197); - Report regarding the proceedings against Kurt Engels, commandant of the Izbica Ghetto (pp. 198-200); - Interrogation of Otto Hantke, commandant of the Budzyn labor camp, an SS man in the Lipowa camp and Krasnik (pp. 201-26).
item Id
7188748
Type of material
Legal documentation
Names of perpetrators
Official documentation
File Number
80
Language
German
Record Group
TR.21 - Trial documentation - Austria
Date of Creation - earliest
31/01/1961
Date of Creation - latest
21/08/1962
Original
NO
No. of pages/frames
260
Archival Signature
25VR 3123/71 (former 27cVR 852/62), Band 23
Location of Originals
LANDESGERICHT KLAGENFURT
Connected to Item
Documentation from a trial conducted against Ernst Lerch and other Austrian war criminals from the SSPF headquarters in Lublin, who participated in "Aktion Reinhardt"
Dedication
Yad Vashem Document Collection, Moshal Repository